New review lead by @MariRSosa in Nature Rev Neurosci! We consider how the brain's navigational centers might coordinate computations and predictions about reward nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our protocol paper on In Vivo E-phys Recording of Place cell/Grid cell Remapping is out in STAR Protocols STAR Protocols bit.ly/3syoSlg by Heechul et al We deposited place/grid cell spike data and Matlab code! (Codes credit to Edvard Ingjald Moser & May-Britt Moser lab)

Our paper finally out in Nature!!! nature We found that dopamine facilitates associative memory encoding of fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex. 5yr-work by Jason Yen Sun Lee, Heechul, Shogo Soma & Tom Nakazono! go.nature.com/3AxkfLr

HHMI News: We are proud to announce our 33 new #HHMIInvestigators. These individuals have the potential to make transformative discoveries over time and we look forward to seeing where their ideas lead them. bit.ly/3AE4OBs

Are you using AAV to deliver genes to the nervous system? Good news / bad news. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… First the bad news: we found AAV can shrink dendrites and disrupt synaptic transmission. The good news? We figured out why it happens, and can tell you how to avoid it. (1/n)

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

The U.S. is an outlier in its low levels of financial support for young children’s care — something Democrats, with their safety net spending bill, are trying to change. nyti.ms/3DfrN6D

#STATMadness: The sixth-annual STAT Madness bracket competition is live! Vote for @UCIrvineSOM's Kei M Igarashi / 五十嵐 啓 Heechul Jason Yen Sun Lee study on associative memories and advance them to the next round! Follow the link 👉 statnews.com/feature/stat-m…

Delighted to share our latest collaboration work with Hitachi group. Here we found impaired sharp-wave ripple coordination between medial entorhinal cortex and CA1 in APP knock-in mice. Thanks for amazing support and work everyone! Kei M Igarashi / 五十嵐 啓 bit.ly/3cjxo3X

The Igarashi lab at UC Irvine is recruiting postdocs. We investigate neural circuit mechanisms for "what" memory (item memory) and how these circuits impair in Alzheimer's disease. There are so many open questions left in our research - pls msg me for potential projects!

#Match2024 Matched at my top choice - NYU Psychiatry Research Career Accelerated Track! Thanks to my amazing family, colleagues and mentor. So grateful and excited for the new journey and adventures! :)